The Politics of Aristotle

Aristoteles; Barker, Ernest

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Document type:: Book

Collection:: POP - Possession, Ownership, Property

Title:: The Politics of Aristotle

Author:: Aristoteles

Editor:: Barker, Ernest

Publisher:: Oxford Univ. Press

Place of publication:: London [u.a.]

Year of publication:: 1952

Language:: English

Topic:: G - Political science and political philosophy

Shelfmark:: G/A717

Access:: Physisches Exemplar Sondersammlung POP

viii CONTENTS BOOK 11. REVIEW OF IDEAL STATES A. Ideal states in theory (cc. i-viii) 1. Plato’s Republic (cc. 1-v) . 2. Plato’s Laws (c. vi) . 3. Phaleas of Chalcedon (c. vii) ¢. Hippodamus of Miletus (c. viii) B. Actual states which approach the ideal (cc. ix—xii) 1. The Spartan constitution (c. ix) . 2. The Cretan type of constitution (c. x) 3. The Carthaginian constitution (c. xi) 1. Postscript on other legislators (c. xii) BOOK III. THE THEORY OF CITIZENSHIP AND CONSTITU- TIONS . . . A. Citizenship (cc. i-v) . . B. Constitutions and their classification (cc. vi-viii) C. The principles of oligarchy and democracy, and the nature of dis- tributive justice (cc. ix—xiii) . s D. Kingship and its forms (cc. xiv-xviii) . 1D 30 39 56 bz AR 73 73 50 83 37 32 g2 {10 110 137 BOOK IV. ACTUAL CONSTITUTIONS AND THEIR VARIETIES 154 A. Introductory (cc. i-ii) ’ . . . » I54 B. The varieties of the main types of constitution, especially de- mocracy, oligarchy, and ‘polity’ (cc. iii-x) . . C. The type of constitution which is most generally practicable (c. xi) D. What sort of constitution is desirable for what sort of civic body? (cc. xii~xiii) ' . ; E. The methods of establishing constitutions, in relation to the three powers—deliberative. executive, and judicial (cc. xiv—=xvi) BOOK V. CAUSES OF REVOLUTION AND CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE v . A. The general causes of revolution and change in all types of constitu- tion (cc. 1—iv) o B. The particular causes of revolution and change in different tvpes of constitution (cc. v—xii) : . 3 1. Democracies (c. v) 3 . 2. Oligarchies (c. vi) . 3. Aristocracies (c. vii) . ’ . * . 4. The methods of ensuring constitutional stability in the three previous types of constitution (cc. viii-ix) . 5. Monarchies—including both kingships and tyrannies (cc. x— xii) + BOOK VI. METHODS OF CONSTRUCTING DEMOCRACIES AND OLIGARCHIES WITH A VIEW TO STABILITY A. The construction of democracies (cc. i—v) . B. The construction of oligarchies (cc. vi~viii) . 2012 2013 214 214 217 221 224 2738 255 255 290

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